Sentences with phrase «doubtful assumption»

That is, it seems to me, a very doubtful assumption in both instances.

It seems to me that it does not, or rather, that an additional and doubtful assumption is required for it to do so.

It suggests that society should reconsider the course of action to which total commitment to such doubtful assumptions give rise.

The step from empirical likelihood functions to PDFs with the help of a well defined prior is one of those illusionary attempts, and even more so, when the likelihood functions themselves are dependent on doubtful assumptions concerning systematic uncertainties and lack of knowledge.

We are also frequently called upon to convince ICBC that its adjusters have understated an accident victim's needs or have arbitrarily limited benefits on the basis of doubtful assumptions.

Not exact matches

The data are doubtful for several reasons, including overestimated small - cap returns due to missing data on delisted stocks; the absence of transaction costs in the calculation of index returns; biases resulting from data - mining and the publishing process; and misestimated statistical measures based on the assumption of normality.

Others can answer to such a loan on your salary (doubtful), but I want to look into some of the assumptions leading into the question.

Realclimate will emphasize the very tentative nature of this forecast, and caution that there is a danger that if one doesn't fully realize how doubtful some of the assumptions are, climate modelers may well be slammed with the accusation that «they predicted a cooling but it didn't happen.»

As assumptions go, that is way too strong, and looks doubtful.

What is more, in the small print describing the assumptions of the «representative concentration pathways», it admits that the top of the range will only be reached if sensitivity to carbon dioxide is high (which is doubtful); if world population growth re-accelerates (which is unlikely); if carbon dioxide absorption by the oceans slows down (which is improbable); and if the world economy goes in a very odd direction, giving up gas but increasing coal use tenfold (which is implausible).